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Loredano, Giovanni Francesco : Scherzi Geniali di Gio: Francesco Loredano. Nobile Veneto. (Parts 1 and 2) Bologna: Gioseffi Longhi 1676. 347p small format, original full vellum binding, replaced endpapers, 2 title pages (Part 1: ends with page 170, Part 2 pages 175-347, large floral vignette to title page, initials, head and tail pieces, extensive browning, traces of old use on many pages, a well loved copy binding good PKM 144546 £220
Sale, Charles : The Specialist. First Edition. 4th Printing. St Louis: Specialist 1929. 31p small format, paper-covered boards, illustrated, dustjacket has chipped edges otherwise an excellent copy PKM 144389 £12
Busch, Wilhelm : Die �ngstliche Nacht. Bildergeschichten, Prosa und Gedichte. Leipzig: Reclam 1942?. 72p paperback, sl aged, PKM 144096 £4
Larner, C E : Larner's Text Book on Walking. Exercise - Pleasure - Sport. London: Health & Strength 1910?. 76p grey cloth with red lettering and illustration, front cloth with red stain, with frontispiece and b&w plates throughout the book, a charming publication by the Amateur Walking Champion of the World and Olympic Champion 1908 PKM 144009 £18
MacDougall, Curtis : Hoaxes. New York: Dover 1958. 258p lightly aged copy with orange card cover, ex library, minor signs of use, crease topbackboard PKM 143813 £12
Wyndham Lewis, D B ; Lee, Charles ; Beerbohm, Max [Illustr]: The Stuffed Owl: An Anthology of Bad Verse. Dent / Everyman 1984. (Everyman Classic) 264p paperback, clean fresh copy PKM 143587 £12
Bentley, Edmund Clerihew : Baseless Biography. London: Constable 1939. 168p green cloth, dj (marginally worn), illus by Nicolas Bentley, nice copy of the first edition PKM 143420 £15
(No Author) : From Russia With Laughter. Cartoons. London: Tandem 1965. small paperback, many illus, VG PKM 143284 £8
Varshavskii, Lev : Russkaya karikatura 40-50-kh gg. XIX v. (RUSSIAN) Leningrad: OGIZ-Izogiz 1937. 146p red cloth binding, small quarto format, very well preserved PKM 142366 £98
Kletz, Trevor : Myths of the Chemical Industry. London: Institution of Chemical Engineers 1984. 109p paperback, VG+ as new PKM 142320 £28
Cowper, William ; Phillips, Watts [Illustr]: The Diverting History of John Gilpin, Shewing How he Went Farther than he Intended, and Came Safe Home Again. With Six Illustrations by Watts Phillips. London: Griffith and Farran 1852. 29pp plus 2pp publisher�s catalogue. Bound in original illustrated card covers strengthened with modern paper spine, minor foxing but still a very pleasant copy with hand-coloured frontispiece and five hand-coloured plates. Scarce (only recorded at Edinburgh and the NLS?) work of the popular cartoonist Watts Phillips, with hand-coloured plates illustrating this popular tale of Cowper�s. Phillips was one of the few pupils of the celebrated Victorian caricaturist George Cruikshank. The Diverting History seems to have proved a popular subject for illustrators of the period, but Phillips� edition seems to be one of the scarcest. PKM 141633 £40
Hood, Thomas : Whims and Oddities in Prose and Verse. A New Edition. London: Tilt 1832. 425p faded maroon cloth with embossed design, gilt titles, tear to both sides of top of spine, previous owner's name to ffep, front hinge cracked, many black and white engravings, binding loosening but still hoding well, pages very clean and fresh PKM 140707 £16
Swann, H ; Johnson, J : Prof. E. McSquared's Original, Fantastic and Highly Edifying Calculus Primer. Los Altos: Umbrella 1974. 111p beige large format paperback, ex library introduction to Calculus amusingly illustrated throughout in cartoon style, a few tears to tops of pages and back page, splash to back cover, light wear to corners, library stickers, binding firm, pages clean PKM 140438 £12
Croce, Giulio Cesare : Il Tre. Operetta Dilettevole. Ed. Charles Speroni. Firenze: Olschki 1960. approx 36p orange card cover, editor inscription, VG+ PKM 139800 £16
The Times : Light and Leading. Being Light Leaders Reprinted from The Times. London: Methuen 1929. 214p green cloth, gilt titles, first edition, no jacket, spine sunned, a few smudges to front board otherwise excellent, interior VG+, clean, white and bright, binding firm, article titles include ''The Book that Reads Itself' 'Brighter Cows' and 'Dog Dumplings', hard to find title PKM 139771 £32
Marais, David : Europeans Only. A Collection of Cartoons. Second Edition. Cape Town: Botha 1960. Unpaginated, ca. 80pp, colour-illustrated cover, a few pages dog-eared but a nice copy, fascinating collection of apartheid humour! PKM 139738 £20
Ten Eyck Perry, Henry : The Comic Spirit in Restoration Drama. Studies in the Comedy of Etherege, Wycherley, Congreve, Vanbrugh, and Farquhar. Yale University Press 1925. 148p brown cloth first edition, no dustjacket, ex library with usual library markings, top edge rubbed, interior VG, fresh, clean and firm PKM 139589 £14
Lamport, Felicia ; Gorey, Edward [Illustr]: Cultural Slag. First edition first printing. With dustjacket. Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1966. 136p first edition hardback with unclipped illustrated dustjacket, orange endpapers, very light wear to dj, spine sunned, very well preserved copy, binding firm, interior clean and fresh PKM 139490 £13
: Nastenniy Kalendar. Russian Language. Moscow: Ogiz Gospolitizdat 1948. 365p metal clasp, some pages detached, but all present, pages clean, browned PKM 139406 £30
Shipley, A E : More Minor Horrors. Illustrated. London: Smith, Elder & Co 1916. 163p brown paperback, ex library copy with tape to spine and front hinge, spine chipped and worn, binding shaken but holding, mosquito to front cover, rat's head to rear, scholarly yet humorous study of common household pests, 49 illustrations PKM 139226 £16
Rabelais, Fran�ois ; Wyndham Lewis, D B [Introduction]: The Heroic Deeds of Gargantua and Pantagruel. Dent's Double Volumes. London: Dent 1933. (Dent's Double Volumes) 362p brown cloth, gilt titles, no dustjacket, light wear to boards, spine a little soiled, endpapers foxed, condition otherwise VG, firm and clean copy PKM 138798 £18
Cornford, F M ; Guthrie, W K C [Foreword]: Microcosmographia Academica. Being a Guide for the Young Academic Politician. Eleventh impression. Cambridge: Bowes & Bowes 1983. 24p stapled white booklet with blue card wraps, ex library with usual labels and stamps but extremely clean and fresh copy of this classic satire on university politics first published 1908 PKM 138749 £12
Schalk, Fritz : Das L�cherliche in der franz�sischen Literatur des Ancien R�gime. K�ln: Westdeutscher Verlag 1954. (Arbeitsgemeinschaft f�r Forschung des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen, Geisteswissenschaften) 30p faint pencil note "tanti saluti F S", nice clean copy PKM 137248 £14
Branca, Vittore : Dagli Scartafacci di Vittore Branca. Per gli Amici. Padova 1983. 6p brown card wrapper, long author inscription to "Fredi" on title, discovering the MS of Dante! PKM 137218 £15
Marri, Fabio : Lingua e Dialetto nella Poesia Giocosa ai Tempi del Moro. Milano 1983. 62p offprint with olive card cover, VG+, with author inscription PKM 137201 £15
Werner, Jack [Ed]; Haro [Illustr]: Small Latin and Less Greek. A Small Book of Lighthearted English-Latin Verse with just a sprinkling of the Attic Salt of Greek. London: Dobson 1961. 64p little book with dustjacket illustrated by Haro, minor spotting to dj, condition otherwise excellent, text in English and Latin PKM 136935 £9
Chesterton, G K : Fancies versus Fads. First edition. London: Methuen 1923. 238p small format faded purple cloth, ex library with usual library markings, spine faded and frayed at head, pages clean and fresh, binding firm PKM 136584 £10.8
Roda, Roda ; Etzel, Theodor [Eds]: Das lachende Deutschland. Berlin: Schuster & Loeffler 1910. (Welthumor) 304 hardback with yellow charicature head on front board, edges and corners sl rubbed, 1st edition, beautifully patterned ffeps, ink writing on fly page, gothic letters, pages unmarked with 12 b&w plates, binding firm, VG PKM 136236 £24
Nash, Roy : North from Granada. Cambridge: Oleander Press 2002. 254p hardcover with dustjacket in excellent condition, pages bright and fresh, binding sound PKM 134829 £14
Hammerton, J A [Ed]: Punch Library of Humour. 25 volume set. London: Educational Book Company 1920?. 25 vols,92p, 24 are uniform set, red cloth boards, illustrated spine, different cartoon on each, Scottish Humour is the odd one out, brown cloth, published by Amalgamated Press, otherwise the same, heavily illustrated set in b&w, all excellent condition though 'On the Warpath' damaged, front board detaching along with 16pp and half spine missing, 'Book of Sports' spine fraying at bottom edge PKM 134583 £150
Pimlott, J A R : The Englishman's Holiday. A Social History. London: Faber 1947. 318p yellow cloth, tape marks, library bookplate, good condition PKM 134483 £12
Lehmann, R C : Cambridge Courts. Studies of University Life in Prose and Verse. London: Henry & Co 1891. (Whitefriars Library of Wit and Humou) 240p orig green cloth with gilt lettering, a very fresh copy, well preserved, undated, bookplates of two owners PKM 133884 £36
Grand-Carteret, John : L'Affaire Dreyfus et l'Image. Paris: Flammarion 1900?. 352p marbled boards, cloth spine, private binding title handwritten on spine, original paper cover bound in, old library stamp and bookplate (?), pages unmarked with many b&w plates, binding firm, VG PKM 133790 £50
Haweis, H R : American Humorists: Lectures delivered at the Royal Institution. London: Chatto & Windus 1873. 210p blue cloth with dandelion motiv, one section detached but present, publisher's catalogue bound at end, first edition PKM 133165 £15
PONT : The British Character, studied and revealed by Pont; with an introduction by E M Delafield. London: Collins 1951. red cloth sl dusty and worn, pages clean, PKM 133085 £12
Bergson, Henri : Laughter. An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic. Authorised Translation by C Brereton & F Rothwell. London: Macmillan 1911. 200p plain blue cloth, library bookplate, nice fresh copy if the first edition of this translation PKM 132316 £64
Kay, Ormonde de : N'Heures Souris Rames: The Coucy Castle Manuscript. London: Angus 1980. 60?p hardback with dj, VG PKM 131990 £14
Sully : An Essay on Laughter. Its Forms, its Causes, its Development and its Value. London: Longmans, Green & Co 1902. 440p bound in light green cloth, ex lib copy with only minimal traces of use, VG+ first edition PKM 131790 £76
Hood, Thomas : Whims and Oddities in Prose and Verse, with 87 Original Designs. A New Edition. London: Moxon 1860. 310p orig green cloth blindstamped, many illus, VG, copy a bit slanted PKM 131622 £16
Giaccherini, Enrico : I "Fabliaux" di Chaucer: Tradizione e innovazione nella narrativa comica chauceriana. Pisa: ETS 1980. 246p large paperback, as new PKM 131456 £24
Madsen, Rainer : Die Gestaltung des Humors in den Werken Wolfram von Eschenbach. Untersuchungen zum "Parzival" und "Willehalm". Self Published 1970. 348p card cover with cloth tape spine, Dissertation, spine torn on head and foot, pages with faint pencil marks along margins of many pages, binding firm, VG PKM 131194 £16
Brittain, Frederick [Ed]; Manning, Bernard [Ed]: Babylon Bruis'd and Mount Moriah Mended; being a compendiouse & authentick Narracioun of ye Proceedinges of ye William Dowsing Societie in a Visitatione of all ye Parisshe Churches & College Chapells of Cambridge during a Longe Vacation �. Cambridge: Heffer & Sons 1940. 12p sewn booklet with pale blue card cover, spoof of William Dowsing's journal created by two Cambridge dons, written and printed in 17th century style, foxing to cover and pages otherwise good first edition copy of this whimsical publication PKM 131182 £36
Baumgart, Reinhard : Das Ironische und die Ironie in den Werken Thomas Manns. Frankfurt: Ullstein 1974. 230p black pb, spine sl rubbed, pages unmarked, binding firm, VG PKM 131171 £12
(No Author) : Flat Out With the Perishers. Dunstable: IPC Newspapers 1969. (A Daily Mirror Book) unpaginated yellow paperback, some shelfwear, slightly slanted spine, some very light foxing to title page otherwise pages unmarked, binding firm, b&w illustrations, very good condition PKM 131072 £10
Morgenstern, Christian : Galgenlieder: Dem Kind im Manne. Frankfurt: Eichborn 1981. ca 30p small pb, pages unmarked with b&w plates, binding firm, VG PKM 130789 £9
Busch, Wilhelm : Die Kirmes und andere Bildergeschichten. Leipzig: Reclam 1930?. 70p small beige hardback with transparent dj, signature of prev owner on ffep dated 1939, pages unmarked with the characteristical Wilhelm Busch illustrationes, text black letter, German, binding firm, VG PKM 130788 £11
Lancaster, Osbert : Pillar to Post: English Architecture Without Tears. London: Murray 1948. 80p hardcover with yellow cloth illustrated boards, no dj, spine sunned and a few very small marks to cover, splash mark to fep, pages clean and bright, binding VG, 8th reprint November 1948, illustrated by the author PKM 130668 £18
Reuter, Christian : Schelmussky: Kuriose und gef�hrliche Reisebeschreibung zu Land und zu Wasser. Leipzig: Insel 1935?. (Insel B�cherei) 77p green patterned hardback with paper label on spine and front board, label on spine sl chipped off, spine sunned, signature of prev owner on ffep dated 1937, pages unmarked, binding firm, VG, sehr gut erhaltenes Insel B�chlein Nr. 294 mit charakteristischem Einbandmuster und Papier Etikett, Signatur des vorhergegangenen Besitzers auf Vorsatzpapier, Seiten sauber und unmarkiert, Bindung fest PKM 130370 £12
Foakes, R A : Shakespeare: The Dark Comedies to the Last Plays: From Satire to Celebration. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul 1971. 186p hardback with grey dustjacket, ex library with bookplate and barcode on ffep, some shelfwear, pages unmarked, 1 page dog-eared, binding firm, index, good condition PKM 129789 £9
Brewer, Derek : Structures and Character-Types of Chaucer's Popular Comic Tales (Seperata de Estudios Sobre Los Generos Literarios, 1) Salamanca 1975. 119-129p yellow card cover, pages unmarked, binding firm, VG PKM 129610 £9
Brewer, Derek : Shakespearean Comedy: Structure and Character-types. (Seperata de Estudios Sobre Los Generos Literarios, 1) Salamanca 1975. 119-129p yellow card cover, pages unmarked, binding firm, VG PKM 129608 £9
Mead, W R : Figures of Fun: Further Reflections on Finns in English Fiction (= Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 1, 77) Helsinki: Soci�t� N�ophilologique 1976. (Neuphilologische Mitteilungen) white card cover, 9p essay, pages unmarked, further essays by: Emil �hmann, Kalevi Tarvainen, Bruce Mitchell, M F Vaughan, etc, binding firm, VG PKM 129519 £10
Salingar, Leo : Shakespeare and the Traditions of Comedy. Cambridge University Press 1976. 356p cream pb, spine sl creased, minor shelfwear, pages unmarked, binding firm, VG PKM 129418 £18
Stanley, E G : Parody in Early English Literature (=Poetica: An International Journal of Linguistic-Literary Studies, 27) Tokyo: Shubun 1988. (Poetica) green card cover, spine sunned, article 69p, pages unmarked, binding firm, VG, also includes "Wisdom as a Key to Heroism in Judith" by M Locherbie-Cameron, "Einige Gedanken zur Geschichte der deutschen Sprache und zur Entstehung der neuhochdeutschen Schriftsprache" by H Rupp PKM 129357 £17
Hood, Thomas : Comic Poems. London: Routledge 1886. 384p red leather spine with gilt lettering, marbeled boards, corners and edges rubbed, ink notes on front and final end papers, pages unmarked, binding firm, VG PKM 129209 £12
Eggers, Peter : Dat Leed von se Herr Pastor sien Koh. Heide: Dithmarscher Presse-Dienst 1975. 58p slim paperback with white illus cover, sl yellowing, VG PKM 129037 £12
Hood, Thomas : The National and Humorous Prose Tales. London: Simpkin, Marshall and Co 1880?. 496p green cloth, covers and spine worn, no date, 1880s?, small contemporary ink inscription on ffep by previous owner, sl weak inner hinges, pages clean, good copy PKM 128988 £14
Squire, J C : Imaginary Speeches - and Other Parodies in Prose and Verse. London: Swift 1912. 200p blue cloth with gilt lettering, spine sl sunned, pages unmarked, binding firm, VG PKM 128723 £16
Boskin, Joseph : Humor and Social Change in Twentieth-Century America. Boston 1979. 132p large format, grey card cover paperback, minor library markings, VG+ PKM 127653 £24
Dunn, Thomas : The Facetiae of the Mensa Philosophica. Washington 1934. (Washington University Studies) 55p grey paper cover, stapled booklet, minor library marks, VG PKM 127519 £30
Greenberg, Daniel : The Grant Swinger Papers. In Collaboration with Center for the Absorption of Federal Funds. Washington: Science & Government 1981. 32p stapled pamphlet, excellent condition: swinging from Grant to Grant. . . PKM 127164 £24
Hiscocks, Dan [Ed]: Crap Cycle Lanes: 50 Worst Cycle Lanes in Britain. London: Eye Books 2007. 113 small square white hardback, with difficulty and danger barometer for each documented crap cycle lane documented, with colour plates, VG++ PKM 125778 £9
Mikes, George ; Larry [Illustr]: How to Be Poor. London: David & Charles 1984. 102p hardback with white dustjacket, minor shelfwear, pages unmarked, with b&w plates, binding firm, very good condition PKM 124756 £8
Lucie-Smith, Edward : The Essential Osbert Lancaster. London: Barrie & Jenkins 1988. 187p hardback with yellow dustjacket, very minor shelfwear, with dedication of prev owner to front end paper, pages unmarked, binding firm, very good condition PKM 124704 £10
Hesselberg, Erik : Kon-Tiki and I. London: Allen & Unwin 1950. 76p large cloth with orig blue illustrated dj, previous owner's signature on ffep, pages clean, binding firm, dj sl frayed along edges, illustrated throughout, first English ed, VG PKM 124186 £11
Grenfell, Wilfred : Yourself and Your Body. London: Hodder & Stoughton 1924. 317p red cloth, boards sl rubbed and stained, sl foxing to edges, some shelfwear, pages unmarked, with many b&w plates, binding firm, very good condition PKM 123465 £50
Hoffnung, Annetta : Bookworms. London: Souvenir 1988. ca 30p orange hardback, pages unmarked, binding firm, very good condition PKM 123404 £6
Lear, Edward : The Complete Nonsense of Edward Lear. London: Faber 1952. 288p illus oards with worn/incompl dustjacket, clean form copy, VG+ illus throughout PKM 122238 £12
Bede, Cuthbert : The Adventures of Mr Verdant Green, with Illustrations by the Author. 3 Parts. London: Blackwood 1854. iv 118p 108p 112p burgundy cloth gilt illus to front and spine, hinge sl worn/hurt, many illu sthroughout PKM 121588 £16
Ingoldsby, Thomas ; Jessop, Ernest [Illustr]: The Lay of St Aloys. A Legend of Blois. London: Eyre & Spottiswoode 1884. Large format hardback with bevelled illus boards, green cloth spine sl stressed, all 34 paged detached as binding defunct, superb illustations, hilarious item with many visual puns, very well preserved PKM 121587 £36
Surtees, Robert Smith : Handley Cross or Mr Jorrocks's Hunt. Vol. II. Illustrated in colour by Cecil Aldin. London: Arnold 1920?. 372p red cloth with gilt lettering, gilt embossing of hunter on horse on front board, spine worn and sunned, corners sl bumped, upper edge in gilt, frontispiece with tissue guard, signature of prev owner on ffep, pages unmarked, binding firm, many colour an b&w plates, very good condition, only Vol II PKM 121105 £50
Baily, Leslie : The Gilbert & Sullivan Book. With 10 colour plates and over 400 illustrations in the text. London: Cassell 1952. 443p red cloth with gilt lettering, minor shelfwear, pages clean and unmarked, binding firm, many colour and b&w plates, VG PKM 120917 £12
Thackeray, William Makepeace : The Four Georges or The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century. London: Smith 1879. 338p green decorative cloth, fraying to head/foot of spine, hinges cracked, good condition PKM 120088 £10
Krane, A von : Hauskom�dien f�r die Jugend. Eine Sammlung von Theaterst�cken, Auff�hrungen und Vortr�gen, f�r alle Gelegenheiten des Familienlebens, gesellige und �ffentliche (Schul-usw.) Feiern, sowie zur belehrenden und anregenden Lekt�re f�r das Alter. Stuttgart: Levy & M�ller 1892?. 382p grey cloth, colour illustration on front board, pages clean and unmarked, red edges, binding firm, excellent condition, Exemplar in sehr gutem Zustand mit leichten Lagerspuren, gepr�gte Illustration auf Buchdeckel, Seiten sauber und unmarkiert, roter Buchschnitt PKM 119543 £20
Stockhausen, H G [Ed]: Lothar Meggendorfer's Humoristische Bl�tter. Stuttgart: Esslinger 1989. 72p A4 red-yellow hardback, 2cm of foot of spine missing, corners sl bumped,pages clean and unmarked, binding firm, many colour plates, VG, sehr gut erhaltenes Exemplar, 2 cm des Buchr�ckens fehlen, Seiten sauber und unmarkiert, viele farbige Abbildungen PKM 119527 £9
K�stner, Erich : Heiterkeit in Dur und Moll: Deutsche Humor gesammelt von Erich K�stner. Band 1: Von Wilhelm Busch bis Bertold Brecht, mit 29 Karikaturen. Band 2: Von Christian Morgenstern bis Hermann Hesse, mit 52 Karikaturen. Band 3: Ludwig Thoma - KurtTucholsky. Frankfurt: Ullstein 1974-1976. 212p 206p yellow paperback, set of 2 vols, ex library with label on spine, barcode and lending form on ffep, pages clean and unmarked, binding firm, VG, Bibliotheksexemplar mit Marke auf Buchr�cken, Strichcode und Ausleihformular auf Vorsatzpapier, Seiten sauber und ohne Eintr�ge PKM 119387 £8
Wiener, Ralph : Als das Lachen t�dlich war: Erinnerungen und Fakten 1933-1945. Rudolstadt: Greifen 1989. 255p cloth with white dustjacket, dj sl bumped on edges, ex library with label on spine and barcode and lending form on ffep, pages clean and unmarked, binding firm, VG, Bibliotheksexemplar mit markiertem Buchr�cken und Strichcode und Ausleihformular auf Schmutztitel, Seiten sauber und unmarkiert PKM 119282 £12
Fougasse : The Changing Face of Britain. Second Impression. London: Methuen 1940. 139p yellow cloth, foxing to boards, slightly soiled, child scribbles to front and back end paper, otherwise very good condition PKM 119182 £9
Cruikshank, George : Four Hundred Humorous Illustrations. London: Simpkin, Marshall and Co 1900?. 416p maroon cloth, ex library, spine sunned, signature to front endpaper, pages unmarked, b&w illustrations, index, very good condition PKM 119175 £19
Greuner, Ruth : Zeitz�nder im Eintopf: Antifaschistische Satire 1935-1945. Berlin: Der Morgen 1975. xli 155p red boards, VG PKM 118907 £10
Garrett, T J : Modern German Humour: 20 Stories. London: Longman 1969. 181p black paperback, ex library, minor shelfwear, spine slightly worn, pages clean and unmarked, binding firm, VG, Bibliotheksexemplar in sehr gutem Zustand mit leichten Lagerspuren, Seiten sauber und unmarkiert PKM 118790 £15
Strassner, Erich : Schwank. 2., �berarbeitete und erg�nzte Auflage. Stuttgart: Metzler 1978. (Sammlung Metzler: Realien zur Literatur) 123p white paperback, minor shelfwear, pages clean and unmarked, binding firm, VG, sehr gut erhaltenes Exemplar, Seiten unmarkiert PKM 118008 £15
Freund, Windfried : Die literarische Parodie. Stuttgart: Metzler 1981. (Sammlung Metzler: Realien zur Literatur) 133p white paperback, minor shelfwear, pages clean and unmarked, binding firm, VG, sehr gut erhaltenes Exemplar, Seiten unmarkiert PKM 117995 £17
Busch, Wilhelm : Der Fuchs. Die Drachen. Zwei lustige Sachen. M�nchen: Bassermann 1938. 38p hardback with cream dustjacket, small tear on dj and spine, minor shelfwear, previous owner's siganture on ffep, pages clean and unmarked, binding firm, many b&w illustrations, VG, sch�nes Exemplar mit vielen sw Zeichnungen, Seiten einwandfrei, Schutzumschlag etwas eingerissen PKM 117776 £30
Reimann, Hans : Vergn�gliches Handbuch der deutschen Sprache. Berlin: Kiepenheuer 1932. 429p sm cloth, covers dusty and a little spotty, pages clean, firm binding, previous owner's signature' Cairo 1947' on title page, VG PKM 114968 £12
: The Hohenzollerns through German Eyes. London: Hutchinson 1917. 32p stapled card covers A4 format, collection of b&w caricatures with German and English text, slightly dusty copy, pp 14 - 18 detached but complete, binding losening, 9p newspaper article ' Tales of Three Nations, nine cartoons by Max Beerbohm' from the Manchester Guardian Weekly, 1st June 1923, laid in, pages clean, VG PKM 114967 £35
Lacey, Mike : Whizzer and Chips Annual 1978. London: IPC Magazines 1977. 143p yellow/blue illustrated hardback, corners bumped, near fine condition, colour illustrations PKM 114673 £14
(No Author) : Punch or the London Charivari, June 29, 1910. Volume 138. London: Office of The Punch 1910. 486p dark purple cloth boards with black leather spine, gilt lettering, worn boards, spine half missing, corners rubbed, hinges cracked, many b/w illustrations, unmarked, good condition PKM 114119 £20
Reed, Graham : Magic for Every Occasion. First Edition. London: Ward 1978. 117p cloth with blue jacket, illustrated cover, near fine condition PKM 113801 £10
Chambers, Nancy [Ed]: Humorous Books for Children. Chosen by Lance Salway. 1978. Stroud: Thimble Press 1978. 51p red paperback, ex library, very good condition, b/w illustrations PKM 113575 £24
Witt, Hubert [Ed]; Oswald von Wolkenstein : Um dieser Welten Lust: Leib- und Lebenslieder des Oswald von Wolkenstein. Aus dem Altdeutschen �bertragen und herausgegeben von H Witt, mit Zeichnungen von Heinz Zander und einem Musikteil von Tilo M�ller-Medek. Leipzig: Insel 1968. 267p large cloth, boxed, b&w illustrations, musical scores, page ribbon, clean pages, hardly used, VG PKM 112969 £14
Peele, Cecily : Encyclopaedia of British Bogies. Oxford: Holdan 1977. 56p blue paperback, minor shelfwear to cover, otherwise near fine condition PKM 112833 £6
Wharton, Michael : Far Away is Close At Hand. Cornwall: Telegraph 1995. 272p green paperback, near fine with b/w illustrations, minor signs of usage PKM 112830 £9
Goedeke, Karl [Ed]: Schw�nke des sechzehnten Jahrhunderts. Leipzig: Brockhaus 1879. (Deutsche Dichter des 16. Jahrhunderts) xxxiv 296p blue cloth with fresh gilt lettering on cover and spine, corners sl rubbed, foxing on edges and some pages, otherwise pages clean, clear printing, binding firm, VG PKM 112829 £16
PONT : Most of Us are Absurd. London: Collins 1946. 96p cloth with white pictorial jacket, slightly soiled and rubbed jacket, signature plate to back of board, otherwise near fine condition, b/w illustrations throughout PKM 112828 £18
Hedayat, Sadegh : La Legende de la Creation. Satire pour Marionettes in 3 actes. First Edition. (Persian) Paris: Maisonneuve 1946. slim booklet with white cover, printed in Arab writing with French title to back, this is number 88 of an edition of only 90 copies printed on Velin des Vosges, stapled, slight soiling, sl worn, uncommon early piece PKM 112652 £46
Lancaster, Osbert : Private Views: New Pocket Cartoons. First Edition. London: Gryphon 1956. 64p small format cloth with cream dustjacket, brown coloured pencil mark on front endpaper, shelfwear, binding firm, many b&w illustrations, VG+ PKM 112395 £10
Reed, Langford ; Bateman, H M [Illustr]: The Complete Limerick Book: The Origin History, and Achievements of the Limerick with over 300 Examples Many of which are Entirely New. London: Jarrold 1932?. 124p yellow paperback, supposedly the third edition of 1932 but in forworrd says Fourth Edition, shelfwear, browning to page edges, paper cover detached although book block remains bound, many b&w illustrations, index, good condition PKM 112387 £10
Anonymous : A Diary of the Gladstone Government. Edinburgh: Blackwood 1886. 28p red oblong paperback stapled, chipped jacket, pages unmarked with many b/w illustrations, very good condition PKM 112314 £18
Fougasse : The Luck of the Draw. London: Methuen 1939. 137p blue cloth, corners slightly bumped, minor stain to boards, spine slightly sunned, pages clean and unmarked, many b&w illustrations, slightly chipped jacket, very good condition PKM 112068 £6
Streeter, Edward : As You Were, Bill. London: Pearson 1920. 154p cloth with grey dustjacket, boards slightly soiled, pages clean and unmarked, many b&w illustrations, minor shelfwear to jacket, very good condition PKM 112025 £11
(No Author) : Picture Jokes for Kids. London: Lock 1986. 200p blue paperback, minor shelfwear, spine slightly creased, pages clean and unmarked, yellowing to edges, many b&w illustrations, very good condition PKM 111944 £7
Herbert, A P : Wisdom for the Wise. Being 'Tinker, Tailor ' and 'The Wherefore and the Why'. First Edition. London: Methuen 1930. 100p navy cloth with gilt lettering, corners slightly bumped, spine slightly rubbed, signature to front endpaper, pages clean and unmarked, binding firm, many b&w illustrations, very good condition PKM 111661 £7
Fougasse : The Changing Face of Britain. London: Methuen 1940. 139p cloth with dustjacket, oblong format, pages clean and unmarked, binding firm, b&w cartoon illustrations throughout, dj a little torn, VG PKM 111037 £14
Jog, N G : Judge or Judas? Bombay: Thacker 1945. 284p, blue cloth, sunned spine and edges of boards, discrete bookplate on inner front board, binding very good, pages clan and unmarked, VG PKM 110748 £15
(No Author) : Importance of Being Witty. Moscow: Raduga 1986. 396p cloth with green/white jacket, minor shelfwear to jacket, near fine condition, unmarked, PKM 110333 £22
Carroll, Lewis ; Holiday, Henry [Illustr]: The Hunting of the Snark. With 9 Illustrations by Henry Holiday. First Edition. London: Macmillan 1876. 83p grey cloth illustrated boards, With 9 Illustrations by Henry Holiday. First Edition. London: Macmillan 1876. 83p grey cloth illustrated boards, gilt edges, corners slightly bumped, minor shelfwear to top/bottom of spine, owner inscription in ink on front endpaper, faint pink stain to back board, pages clean and unmarked, with illustrations, excellent condition PKM 109548 £160
Frost, Arthur : Stuff and Nonsense. London: Nimmo 1888?. 95p red/grey hardback, large format, worn boards ans spine, pages clean and unmarked, illustrations throughout, very good condition PKM 108673 £28
Ross, Michael : Race Riots. Comedy and Ethnicity in Modern British Fiction. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press 2005. 309p hardback, with black dj, fine condition, as new, index PKM 106215 £36
Rey-Flaud, Bernadette : La Farce ou la Machine a Rire. Th�orie d'un genre dramatique 1450 - 1550. Gen�ve: Droz 1984. (Publications Romanes et Fran�aises) large paperback with grey cover, protective film fitted, ex library copy, excellent unused condition PKM 106116 £64
Mahaffey, Vicki : Modernist Literature. Changing Fictions. Oxford: Blackwell 2006. 242p black paperback, as new, bibliography, index PKM 106022 £16
Anstey, F : Vice Versa. London: Murray 1937. (Murrays Novels) 302p sm hardback with a lovely dj in excellent condition, showing Thick & Thin in confrontation, book near fine, authentic price alteration sticker on spine PKM 105765 £8
Nicolson : The English Sense of Humour and Other Essays. London: Constable 1956. 208p navy hardback, no dj, clean, stiff cover, internally some ex lib stamps, otherwise clean, unmarked, some light foxing to page ends PKM 105577 £8
Lariar, Lawrence : You've Got Me On The Hook: A Catch Of The Funniest Cartoons About Fishing By Leading Cartoonists. London: Hammond 1958. blue hardback, tall format, illus throughout, VG PKM 104916 £12
Merlin : The Book of Charms and Ceremonies. Whereby All May Have the Opportunity of Obtaining Any Object They Desire. London: Foulsham 1910. 96p small brown limp cloth cover, delightful very rare book full of charms for every occasion, fair condition, originally stapled but staples have mostly rotted away, all pages present, mostly clean and free from foxing, some slightly thumbed and occasional pencil marks, rust marks from staples, an excellent candidate for rebinding. PKM 104380 £80
Milligan, Spike : "Rommel?" "Gunner Who?". A Confrontation in the Desert. (War Biography Vol.2) London: BCA 1974. 192p black hardcover, fine condition, dustjacket in fine condition, includes b/w illustrations. PKM 104256 £8
R D : Out of the Ark or Creatures Facetious in Cut and Doggerel. London: Peter Davies 1930. 119p red speckled hardback with white dustjacket, very good condition, dj in poor condition, some water damage and tears, cover a little faded, internally clean and well bound, beautiful illustrations throughout PKM 104099 £14
R D : Out of the Ark or Creatures Facetious in Cut and Doggerel. London: Peter Davies 1930. 119p red speckled hardback, excellent condition, cover a little chipped, internally small amount of foxing, otherwise, clean and well bound, beautiful illustrations throughout PKM 104097 £14
Junior, Allan ; Crombie, Charles : The Canny Scot. Dundee: Valentine & Sons c1920. 34p paperback with tartan spine, good condition, cover quite tatty, internally pages unmarked and well bound, some very light foxing throughout, excellent illustrated plates throughout PKM 104045 £16
Collier, Ronald : More Bees Under My Bonnet. London: Motor Racing Publications 1958. 55p hardback with green and black dustjacket, very good condition, dj in good condition, a little scuffed on extremities, internally clean, tightly bound, illustrations throughout PKM 103963 £8
Burgess, Gelett : The Maxims of Methuselah. New York: Stokes 1907. 108p small hardback,very good condition, cover worn and a little bumped with age, contents well bound and clean, illustrations throughout, some light pencil markings PKM 103955 £10
Hicks, J S : An Illustrated Army List. London: Moss Bros & Co 1938. 16p rose card-wrapped oblong quarto, 1st edition, line drawings, poems, published to advertise military tailoring, worn sunned edges, split corners and some staple rusting, good. PKM 102853 £40
Lamb, Charles : Last Essays of Elia. London: Harrap No date. (Harrap Library) 219p dull green cloth, gilt to spine, frontisp, superb condition PKM 102742 £7
Winter, Charles : 24 Recitationettes. Being Tales Told in Verse. London: Reynolds & Co 1922. 20p booklet, slightly creased, dirty and foxed, but a rare curious item PKM 102396 £8
Constanduros, Mabel ; Hudson, Lily : Overheard On The Promenade. London: French No date. (French's Monologue Series) 8p red booklet, very good condition, hard to find PKM 102395 £10
France, Mabel : The Aunt Maria Sketches. London: Reynolds & Co No date. 20p blue booklet, sl foxing, rare title PKM 102394 £10
Coward, Noel ; Albee, Edward [Introduction]: Three Plays. Blithe Spirit, Hay Fever & Private Lives. New York: Grove 1979. 254p black paperback, very good condition PKM 101368 £10
Styan, John : The Dark Comedy. The Development of Modern Comic Tragedy. Cambridge University Press 1968. 311p paperback, hardly used, 2nd ed, reading list, index, VG PKM 101182 £10
Rogers, Benjamin : The Knights of Aristophanes & The Birds of Aristophanes. The Greek Texts Revised with a Translation into Corresponding Metres, Introduction and Commentary. London: Bell & Sons 1910 & 1906. 247p & 305p black hardback vols, 'Knights' has tape to spine and notes in pen on inside back cover and is in, bindings poor, weak inner hinges, first editions, ex lib, some pencil marginalia PKM 101153 £25
Seligson, Marcia : What ever happened to ...?: A Collection of things remembered because once they were important to us. Los Angeles: Price Stern Sloan 1965. black notebook style binding with cloth spine, printed in many colours, VG+ first edition PKM 100729 £12
Aye : Humour of Parliament and Parliamentary Elections. London: Universal Press 1931. 158p blue hardback, pages brown and stiff but clean, first edition, good condition, 'Garbled Reports' and 'Clever Retorts in the House' typical chapters PKM 100431 £14
Reed, Phoebe : My Pet Limericks. Illus Colleen Roark. West Sedona: Reed 1983. 32p stapled, yellow card cover, VG PKM 99733 £14
D, J G D : High Hats and Sly-Boots. Privately Distributed 1964?. 61p with b/w dustjacket, illustrations, clean copy, first edition, VG PKM 97715 £24
Kohn, Alexander [Ed]: The Journal of Irreproducible Results- Offical Organ of the Society of Basic Irreproducible Research. Vols 15, 16, 17 (1966 - 1968) Chicago 1966 - 1968. large stapled single issues, VG, 3 issues for vol 15 and 16, 2 issues for vol 17, plus 3 issues for Vol 19 and one for Vol 20 (1973) PKM 97267 £35
Gilman, Sander : The Parodic Sermon in European Perspective. Aspects of liturgical parody from the middle ages to the twentieth century. Wiesbaden: Steiner 1974. 244p white paperback with illus cover, VG+, clean fresh copy PKM 96230 £30
Davis, Jim : The Incurable Garfield. London: Guild 1987. obliong book, hardback, approx 300p illustrated PKM 95923 £12
Henscheid, Eckhard : Dummdeutsch. Frankfurt: Fischer 1985. paperback, VG PKM 95806 £4
Steinhaus, Hubert : Mathematical Snapshots. Leipzig: Stechert 1938. 135p orig cloth binding with humidity damage visible on front cover, illus throughout, pocket with paper toys in back (coloured star-shaped form incomplete) stereo glasses, first edition which has seen some humidity as visible on cover, and also visible as a very slight discolouration / slight wavy structure on many pages, still a nice copy of the first edition PKM 94878 £58
Jonas, Monika : Der sp�tmittelalterliche Versschwank. Studien zu einer Vorform trivialer Literatur. Innsbruck 1987. (Innsbrucker Beitr�ge zur Kulturwissenschaft, Germanistische Reihe) 316p large paperback, VG+ PKM 94310 £28
Manser, Martin : The Guinness Book of Words. London: Guinness Books 1988. 160 pages stiff paper cover, VG PKM 94072 £8
Forster, Leonard : Poetry of Significant Nonsense. An Inaugural Lecture. Cambridge University Press 1962. 46p sewn booklet, fresh nice copy, name on title PKM 94039 £10
Renatus, Johannes : Allerlee aus d'r �berlausitz. Heiteres und Ernstes in Oberlausitzer Mundart. Vol 4 only. Bautzen: Eduard R�hl 1893. 241p terracotta cloth with black ornaments and gilt lettering, a fresh and firm clean copy PKM 93662 £24
Lambel, Hans : Erz�hlungen und Schw�nke. Leipzig: Brockhaus 1872. (Deutsche Klassiker des Mittelalters mit Wort und Sacherkl�rungen) 358p bound in plain blue cloth with spine tearing, a nice clean copy PKM 93661 £14
Boole, Mary Everest : Philosophy and Fun of Algebra. Signed Copy, First Edition. London: Daniel 1909. 90p green cloth with mistletoe design, tight copy, cover sl dulled, VG. Inscribed "P Jourdain from the Author Xmas 1910" with Philip Jourdain bookplate, also inserted another note regarding provenance PKM 92949 £120
Sykes, Arthur : A Book of Words reprinted in Part from Punch. With a few Sketches by the Author. Westminster: Constable 1895. green cloth with gilt donkey to front, illus title page and many ornaments, author inscription in mirror writing (sic), nice fresh copy PKM 92806 £46
Sykes, Arthur : Harking Back. In Verse and Prose. (From Punch). London: Simpkin, Marshall and Co 1929. 132p author inscription on endpaper, first edition, VG+ PKM 92805 £20
Katasonova, E N [Ed]: Funny Stories. (After Jane Thayer). Second Edition. Moscow: Progress 1987. 94p paperback, coloured cover, foreign language teaching book PKM 92154 £14
Freeman, Roger : As I Was A-Saying: Country Goings-On. Ipswich: Malthouse Press 1973. 144p brown paperback, VG PKM 92075 £6
Coren, Alan [Ed]: Pick of "Punch" London: Hutchinson 1983. hardcover with dustjacket, VG, clean firm copy without fault: Nobody calls Sir Rodney an idle bastard and get away with it PKM 92062 £8
Doran, Amanda-Jane [Ed]: "Punch" Book of Utterly British Humour. London: Grafton 1989. 176p hardback blue dustjacket, VG+ "Soon be autumn, the rain's getting colder" PKM 92061 £8
Johnson, Kim (Howard) : The First 20 Years of Monty Python. Plexus. Kim "Howard" Johnson Publisher: learn how customers can search inside this book. Availability: usually dispatched within 1 to 2 working days 10 Used & New from �4.90 See larger photoEdition: Paperback More Product Details Product Details:Paperback 288 pages (November 19, 1990) Publisher: Plexus Publishing Ltd PKM 92060 £8
Surtees, Robert Smith : Jorrocks' Jaunts and Jollities. Dent / Everyman 1943. 245p red cloth, plain binding, VG, clean firm copy PKM 91903 £7
Exley, Richard : Happy Families. Life and Laughter in the Family, as Seen by Children. Watford: Exley 1977. hardback, VG, nice clean copy PKM 89745 £6.75
Herbert, A P : Two Gentlemen of Soho. London: French 1960?. 28p paper cover, pencil notes to text, correspondence with publisher and acting licence included PKM 88966 £7.2
Thody, Philip ; Evans, Howard : Faux Amis & Key Words - A Dictionary-Guide to French Language, Culture and Society through Lookalikes and Confusables. London: Athlone 1985. 224p paperback, VG PKM 88810 £5
Rees, Nigel : Epitaphs. A Dictionary of of Grave Epigrams and Memorial Eloquence. London: Bloomsbury 1994. red paperback, as new PKM 88525 £7.2
Hollowood, Bernard : Pick of Punch. London: Office of The Punch 1967. 180p large format, dustjacket present and nice, VG, clean copy PKM 87707 £19.8
Eliezer, Ben : The World's Best Jewish Jokes. Sydney: Angus & Robertson 1984. 87p red paperback, sl used, but still a clean and firm copy PKM 87688 £5.4
Adams, Anthony ; Leach, Robert : Talent, Wonder and Delight. A Scrapbook of Victorian Entertainment. London: Blackie 1976. 88p paperback, VG with shelfmark PKM 87567 £6
: The Schoolmaster in Comedy and Satire. New York: American Book Company 1894. Excerpts from Rabelais, Shakespeare, Fenelon, Swift, Pope, Maria Edgeworth, Dickens, Gogol, etc PKM 86894 £10.8
Mather, Victoria ; Macartney-Snape, Sue : The Appalling Guests, Social Stereotypes from the Telegraph Magazine. London: Murray 2003. 96p hardback with white illustrated jacket, little use, pages clean with illustrations throughout, VG PKM 86696 £5.4
Jones, Nick : The Bestiary. Cokaygne Press 1972. Unpaginated spiral bound pink booklet with dusty card cover, photograpsh throughout, printed from handwritten original, VG PKM 86642 £13.5
Amis, Kingsley [Ed]: Harold's Years. Impressions from the New Statesman and the Spectator. London: Quartet 1977. 175p hardback with white laminated jacket, a little yellowed but pages clean, first edition, VG PKM 85666 £9
[Punch]: Punch, October 12, 1983. London: Office of The Punch 1983. Journal with illustrated cover, little use, pages clean with cartoons, advertisments and articles by Simon Hoggart and Alan Coren, VG PKM 85429 £4.5
[Punch]: Punch, June 20th 1984. London: Office of The Punch 1984. Journal with illustrated cover, little use, pages clean with cartoons, advertisments and articles by Melvyn Bragg and Alan Coren, VG PKM 85428 £4.5
Lewis, Martin : Today's the Day. London: Virgin 1995. 143p yellow paperback with pictorial laminated cover, pages clean with pictures throughout, VG PKM 85412 £5.4
Epstein, Eugene : Who Put the Wit in Switzerland? Bern: Benteli 1988. 94p yellow paperback with illustrated laminated cover, as new, pages clean, VG PKM 84974 £10
Wilde, Oscar : Intentions and Other Writings. New York: Dolphin 1950s?. 227p blue paperback with card cover, some use, pages clean with catalogue, VG PKM 83708 £13.5
Williams, Kenneth : Acid Drops. London: Coronet 1981. 192p blue paperback with pictorial card cover, little use, pages clean with illustrations, VG PKM 82830 £4.5
Jerrold, Douglas : A Man Made of Money, Chronicles of Clovernook. (The Writings of Douglas Jerrold, Collected Edition, Vol 6 only) London: Bradbury & Evans 1853. 344p orig black cloth with blindstamped ornaments to boards and gilt lettering to spine, a fresh & tight copy, very little used, inner hinges intact, text printed in simple black frame, no plates called for, VG PKM 82418 £18
Hilditch, Neville [Ed]: In Praise of Humour. An Anthology of Enjoyment. London: Muller 1949. 64p small cerise hardback with happy and sad face patterned paper boards, first edition, pages clean with illustrations thorughout, VG PKM 82128 £9
Bryson, Bill : The Lost Continent, Travels in Small Town America. London: Abacus 1999. (Black Swan) 293p white paperback with illustrated card covers, some use but pages clean, good copy, VG PKM 82091 £6
Knutson, Harold : The Triumph of Wit. Moliere and Restoration Comedy. Columbus: Ohio State University Press 1988. 192p hardback with white illustrated jacket, edges a little grubby but pages clean, first edition, notes, bibliography and index, plates to centre, VG PKM 82057 £9
M'Ghie, M P : The Celebated Comic Song, Purty Molly Brallaghan, as sung by Mr Power, Mr Leonard, and Mr Colins, written by Miss M P M'Ghie. The Music Arranged and Partly Composed by W M'Ghie. Dublin: M'Cullagh & M'Cullagh 1860. title and 2 pages, p2 contains additional text, "fifth edition" on title, printed from plate, paper yellowing, removed from binding PKM 81825 £21.6
Hollander, Nicole : Ma, Can I Be a Feminist and Still Like Men? New York: St Martin's 1980. Unpaginated white paperback with illustrated laminated cover, landscape profile, ink inscription, pages clean and illustrated throughout, VG PKM 80648 £9
Balmas, Enea [Ed]: Comedies du XVI Siecle. Paris: Nizet 1967. 313p grey paperback with card cover, little use, pages clean with bibliographical note, French language, VG PKM 80416 £10
Lederer, Richard : Word Circus. Illustrated by Dave Morice. Springfield: Merriam-Webster 1998. 295p hardback with red illustrated laminated cover, as new, spine a little suned but pages clean with illustrations throughout, VG+ PKM 80146 £6
Canavan, Bernard : Economists for Beginners. London: Writers & Readers Publishing 1982. 175p many illus & comics VG, nice copy PKM 80031 £8
Swift, Jonathan : The Tale Of A Tub - and Other Works. Edited by Henry Morley. London: Routledge 1889. (Carisbrooke Library) 448p half calf binding with worn spine but still in place, text clean, binding firm PKM 79804 £9
MacHale, Des : The Book of Elephant Jokes. Cork: Mercier 1982. 48p purple and white stapled booklet with illustrated laminated card cover, some use, pages clean, VG PKM 79625 £6
Taylor, Henry : The Statesman: An Ironical Treatise on the Art of Succeeding. With an Introd Essay by Harold Laski. Cambridge: Heffer 1957. lvi 134p hardback dustjacket, publisher's compliments glued to front endpaper, a few neat pencil marks in margin, VG PKM 79282 £12.6
Lent, John [Ed]: Illustrating Asia. Comics, Humour, Magazines and Picture books. London: Curzon 2001. (ConsunAsiaN) 249p hardback with green pictorial laminated jacket, as new, pages clean with plates, references and index, excellent copy PKM 79175 £36
Hollander, Nicole : Okay! Thinner Thighs for Everyone. New York: St Martin's 1984. 128p oblong paperback, VG PKM 78256 £5
Mahood, Kenneth : The Secret Sketchbook of a Bloomsbury Lady. Foreword by Michael Holroyd. New York: St Martin's 1982. 64p green hardback with printed marbled boards and illustrated cover, little used first edition, marbled end papers with illustrations throughout, VG PKM 77358 £5.4
Parrott, E O [Ed]: How to Become Absurdly Well Informed About the Famous and Infamous. A Collection of Brief Biographies. London: Penguin 1988. 220p red paperback with illustrated laminated cover and orange spine, as new, pages clean, VG PKM 76880 £4.5
[Hislop, Ian]; Ingram, Richard : Private Eye: Son of Blair, The Sequel and More Vicar Anyone. St Albion Parish News 3 and 4. Further Letters from the Vicar, the Rev A R P Blair MA (Oxon) London: Private Eye 2000 - 2001. 96p 96p paperbacks with colour pictorial laminated covers, as new, pages clean with photographs and illustrations throughout, VG+ PKM 76591 £5.4
Browning, Guy : The Social Survival Handbook. Illustrated by Simon Torrance. New York: Simon & Schuster 1993. 142p white paperback with illustrated panel and laminated cover, landscape format, pages clean with illustrations thorughout, VG PKM 76578 £18
Lariar, Lawrence [Ed]: Best Cartoons of the Year 1971. New York: Dodd, Mead & Co 1971. Unpaginated large hardback with white illustrated laminated jacket, beginning to yellow but pages clean and unmarked, includes cartoons by Arno, Handlesman and Yauk, VG PKM 76531 £13.5
Wilde, Oscar ; Sheridan, Richard et al: Three Comedies: The Knight of the Burning Pestle, The Critic, The Importance of Being Earnest. Edited by G P W Earle. London: Ginn & Co 1930s?. 309p green cloth with rubbed gilt lettering to cover and spine, hardly used, library bookplate, pages clean with notes, appendix and illustrations, very nice copy, VG+ PKM 75964 £6.3
Calderon de la Barca, Pedro : Comedias. Coleccion Mas Completa que Todas las Anteriores, Heche e Ilustrada por Juan Eugenio Hartzenbusch. Tomo Primero y Segundo. Madrid: Rivadeneyra 1862 / 187. (BAE) 610p 686p petrol coloured quarter calf with gilt lettering on spine and small design between raised bands, somewhat scuffed ex-lib copies, corners bumped and some rubbing to spine extremities and edges, hinges of Volume 2 opening and minor ink stains to edges, binding holding in both and pages clean with grey marbled end papers, Spanish language PKM 75758 £31.5
Calderon de la Barca, Pedro : Teatro de Calderon de la Barca con un Estudios Crticc - Biografico y Apuntes Hitoricos y Bibliograficos Sobre Cada Comedia por Garcia Ramon. Tomo 3: Comedia, Tomo 4: Comedias. Paris: Garnier 1877. 588p 612p rebound brown hardbacks with gilt lettering on spines, ex-lib hence binding, bookplates, red speckled edges browned, pages clean with index, Spanish language, VG PKM 75588 £46
Farman, John : You Can't Tell a Rook by its Cover. Unreliable Proverbs. London: Pan 1989. approx 20p unpaginated sm square white hardback with illustrated laminated cover, as new, pages clean with illustrations throughout, VG PKM 74673 £5.4
Woollcott, Alexander : While Rome Burns. London: Penguin 1940. 247p yellow and white paperback with matching jacket, a little dusty but pages clean, VG PKM 74381 £3.6
Thurber, James : Thurber's Dogs. A Collection of the Master's Dogs. Written and Drawn, Real and Imaginary, Living and Long Ago. London: Penguin 1958. 222p orange and white paperback with illustrated cover, little used first publisher's edition, pages clean with illustrations throughout, VG PKM 74379 £9
Nash, Ogden : Family Reunion. London: Dent 1951. 146p hardback with green illustrated jacket, a little scuffed along the edges, first British edition, pages clean, VG PKM 74366 £5.4
Casson, Hugh [Foreword]: Drawing the Line. Cartoonists Against Apartheid. A Selection of Illustrations from 20 Years of Anti-Apartheid News. London: Anti-Apartheid Movement 1985. 38p red stapled paperback with laminated illustrated cover, hardly used, pages clean, VG PKM 73236 £10.8
Schmitz, Karlchen : Hu is Hu? Wer ist [denn schon] wer? Konrads politische Erben. Heilbronn: Paulus Verlag 1968. 96p (no pagination) pb, illustr, bright orange cover, cover sl rubbed at top end, otherwise neat and clean copy with caricatures and drawings throughout PKM 71190 £5.4
Goscinny ; Uderzo : Obelix and Co. Translated by Anthea Bell and Derek Hockridge. London: Hodder & Stoughton 1980. 48p large blue paperback with illustrated cover, small chip to top of spine, edges a little browned but pages clean and unmarked with colour illustrations throughout, VG PKM 70410 £9
Urbach, Reinhard : Die Wiener Kom�die und ihr Publikum: Stranitzky und die Folgen. Wien: Jugend & Volk 1973. (Wiener Themen) 147p hb protective sleeve, tipped-in frontisp, index, photogr plates, hardly used, VG PKM 67694 £7.2
Vecchione, Glen : Challenging Math Puzzles. Illustrated by Glen Vecchioe and Nina Zottoli. Sterling 1998. 96p paperback with patterned cover hardly used, pages clean and unmarked with diagrams throughout, VG PKM 66424 £4.5
Ward, Artemus : Artemus Ward His Book. With a Biographical Introduction by Hannaford Bennett. London: John Long 1906. (Carlton Classics) 148p small red cloth covered boards, faded lettering on spine and publisher's blindstamp on cover, hinges yielding, pages clean, VG PKM 65384 £4.5
Beutelspacher, Albrecht : Pasta all'infinito: Meine Italienische Reise in die Mathematik. M�nchen: Beck 2000. 267p cloth dj, almost as new, German language, VG+ PKM 64945 £8
Rose, Marius : The Intelliegent Teacher's Guide to Preferment. Illustrated by Biro. First Edition. London: Chatto & Windus 1954. 96p primrose cloth with red lettering on spine, jacket a little worn and dust marked but undamaged, minor foxing to edges and end papers but pages clean and unmarked, VG PKM 64893 £6.3
(No Author) : Ancient Ballads, Songs and Poems. Bound with 1) Songs Descriptive, Moral and Pastoral. Humourous; and bound with 2) Songs Elegiac. Sea; and bound with Scotish Ballads and Songs. Manchester: Printed by G Nicholson, sold by T Knott and Champante & Whitrow 1796. 81p, 28p + 12p, 40p, 52p titlepages with arms or engraved illus, imprint for "Songs Elegiac. Sea" is Ludlow 1799, glossary and contents, a neat small volume in full calf, front board detached, some pages have faint pencil reference to Percy, very uncommon PKM 63306 £90
Hood, Thomas : The Serious Poems of Thomas Hood. With a Preface of Thomas Hood the Younger. London: Moxon 1868. (Pocket Series) 484p small blue hardback with gilt lettering and decoration on spine and cover, pages clean, b/w frontispiece with tissue guard, VG PKM 63041 £14
Silvey ; Jex : Flashers. A selection of bad taste cartoons from the Silvey-Jex Partnership. London: Silvey-Jex 1981. 33p paperback, cartoon book, inscription otherwise VG PKM 62083 £4.5
Polt, Gerhard : Herr Ober! Das vollst�ndige Drehbuch mit vielen Fotos. Z�rich: Haffmans 1992. 138p paperback, VG+ PKM 61693 £6.3
Treasure, Geoff : What me, Sir? Episodes in the Life of a Young Teacher fresh from College. Leicester: Inter-Varsity 1972. 95p sm pb, illustrations, VG PKM 61163 £8
Davis, William [Ed]: The Star-Spangled Jack. Punch, 24 Sept 1969. London: Office of The Punch 1969. ix pp 477 - 520 stapled pb A4 format, illustrations, ads, VG PKM 61083 £6.3
Whibley, Charles [Ed]: In Cap and Gown: Three Centuries of Cambridge Wit. London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co 1889. 354p burgundy cloth w/ gilt lettering, index, publisher's catalogue at back, cracked hinge, cloth a little rubbed, pages clean and fresh w/ no foxing, VG PKM 60953 £20
Belloc, Hilaire : Selected Cautionary Verses. London: Penguin 1951. (Puffin) 181p pb, illus Bentley, VG PKM 59438 £4.5
Duggan, Irene ; Somerville, Veronica : Pardon the Inconvenience. Salisbury: Privately Printed 1973. 46p, pb, collection of humourus stories and drawings about bathrooms, VG+ PKM 57986 £12.6
Brandolini : Fritz, No 1, Jg 1, Berlin 1985. Berlin: Fritz 1985. xl 228p sm pb, illustrations, various contributors, advertisements, sl weak inner hinges, VG PKM 57661 £10.8
Freud, Sigmund : Der Witz und seine Beziehung zum Unbewussten. Frankfurt: Fischer 1958. (B�cher des Wissens) 201p pb, index, VG PKM 57643 £3.6
Sawyer, W W : Mathematician's Delight. London: Penguin 1963. 234p paperback, VG PKM 57201 £3
Lowell, James Russell : Biglow Papers by Homer Wilbur. 3rd Edition. Boston: Ticknor Reed and Fields 1853. 12p (=Notices of an Independent Press) xxxii 163p, orig brown cloth blindstamped, in back 8 page catalogue of books by Ticknor Reed and Fields dated December 1853 and bound between endpapers, a clean and firm ex lib copy with name in ink and bookplate and cancellation stamps PKM 57135 £25.2
Gilbreath, Robert : Escape From Management Hell: 12 Tales of Horror, Humor and Heroism. (First Edition) San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler 1993. xiv 161p cloth, dj, illustrated, as new PKM 56886 £18
Arno, Peter : The Penguin Peter Arno. London: Penguin 1957. 124p, pb, book of cartoons, VG PKM 56819 £5
Gordon, Jan ; Bateman, H M : Art ain't all Paint. Feature Books 1944. 84p large blue cloth, illustrations, collection of limerick-like poems, index, notes, very well preserved copy, VG ex lib copy PKM 56559 £10.8
Benchley, Robert : Around the World Backwards and Sideways. With Drawings by Gluyas Williams. London: Dobson 1952. ix 241p cloth dj with illustration, 1st edition, illustrations, nice and clean pages, VG PKM 56466 £10
M�ller, Wolfgang ; Hammer, Konrad [Eds]: Narren, Henker, Kom�dianten: Geschichte und Funktion des politischen Kabaretts. Bonn: Schaffende Jugend 1956. 145p large square cloth with adhesive transparent film over cover, many illustrations, VG ex lib copy PKM 56436 £9
Lichtenberg, Georg Christoph : Aphorismen. Zeichnungen von Fritz Fischer. Zweite Auflage. M�nchen: Hanser 1955. 62p card cover with illustration on front, illustrations, hardly used, VG PKM 56318 £13.5
Trudgill, Peter : Coping with America. A Beginner's Guide to the USA. Oxford: Blackwell 1982. xi 144p paperback, cartoon illustrations, index, VG PKM 56236 £12.6
Morgenstern, Christian : Das Mondschaf. Eine Auswahl aus den Galgenliedern./ The Moon Sheep. Authorized English Version by A E Eitzen. Wiesbaden: Insel 1953. 95p hb, collection of poems in German and English, VG PKM 55705 £9
Andres, Stefan : Vom heiligen Pf�fflein Domenico. M�nchen: List 1966. 118p sm hb, illustrations, VG PKM 55544 £5
Reimann, Hans : Das Paukerbuch: Skizzen vom Gymnasium. Hannover: Steegemann 1922. 116p sm hb, spine absent, illustration on cover, weak inner hinges, VG PKM 55540 £8
Eichholz, Armin : In Flagranti. Parodien. M�nchen: Pohl 1954. 96p, boards, dustjacket, VG 4.-8. Tausend PKM 54710 £6
Jost, Walter : Der Alybaaba baaseldytsch. F��derezaichnige vo der Ther�se Robert. Basel: GS 1981. 72p hb, illustrations, hardly used, VG+ PKM 54410 £12
Oechelhaeuser, Gisela [Ed]: Das letzte Ende: Gibt es ein Leben nach der Wiedervereinigung? Berlin: Hentrich 1991. (lansk mehr produktion) 95p large pb, illustrations, frontisp, hardly used, VG+ PKM 54362 £10.8
Oechelhaeuser, Gisela [Ed]: Von der Wende bis zum Ende: Wendejahr - die Distel im Scharfen Kanal. Berlin: Hentrich 1990. (lansk mehr produktion) 95p large pb, illustrations, various contributors, VG+ PKM 54360 £7
Hartung, Hugo : K�nig Bogumil K�nig. Ein heiterer Roman. D�sseldorf: Droste 1961. 237p cloth dj, VG+, a fresh and nice copy PKM 54329 £7
Morgenstern, Christian : Alle Galgenlieder: Galgenlieder, Palmstr�m, Palma Kunkel, Gingganz. Berlin: Cassirer 1933. 327p yelow square cloth, sl weak inner hinges, illustrations, VG, 21. - 40. Tausend PKM 54240 £9
Parsons, Ruth : Taken for a Ride: One Woman's View of Working on the Buses. Drawings by Christopher Madden. London: Centerprise 1980. 30p stapled booklet, illustrations, VG PKM 54149 £10.8
Immermann, Karl : M�nchhausen. Eine Geschichte in Arabesken. Zweite Ausgabe. Zweiter Theil. D�sseldorf: Schaub 1841. iv 189p, plain gren cloth (sl soiled but firm) contains Acta Schnickschnackschnurriana etc PKM 53850 £21.6
Pollard, Arthur : Satire. London: Methuen 1970. (Critical Idiom) 84p green and white booklet with laminated card cover, some minor ink underlining otherwise pages clean, index, bibliogr, VG PKM 53785 £6.3
(No Author) : Punch, or The London Charivari, June 30, 1915, Vol 148. London: Office of The Punch 1915. 520p sm quarto plum cloth, gilt illustration on cover, sl weak inner hinges, colour title pages, illustrations, nice and clean pages, firm binding, a very fine copy, PKM 53126 £19.8
Eldin, Peter : Skool Graffiti. Illustrations by John Miller. London: Arrow 1982. (Sparrow Book) approx 30p pb, illustrations, VG PKM 53092 £8
Gossett, Margaret : Piccolo Book of Jokes. Text Illustrations by Karen Heywood. Revised edition. London: Pan 1974. (Piccolo Book) 124p pb, cover sl creased, illustrations, VG PKM 53091 £7
Heath : Bloomers. Illustrated by Heath. London: Unwin 1982. (Unwin Paperbacks Humour) 80p pb, illustrations, hardly used, VG PKM 53090 £7
Immermann, Karl : M�nchhausen: Eine Geschichte in Arabesken. Zweite Ausgabe, vierter Theil. D�sseldorf: Schaub 1841. v 168p sm green cloth, cover a little dirty, sl foxing, firm binding, still very well preserved copy PKM 53049 £18
Sedgemore, Brian : The Insider's Guide to Parliament. London: Icon 1995. 144p large square pb, illustrations, hardly used, VG PKM 52973 £9
(No Author) : Blasius Spritzf�hrtli: Genf - Hamburg - Schwarzwald - Basel. Mit Zeichnungen vom jungen Blasius. Zweite Auflage. Basel: Schwabe 1958. 84p cloth dj, illustrations, VG PKM 52906 £10.8
Ure, Norman [Ed]: The Ted Heath Bunkside Book. London: Frewin 1971. approx 25p sm square hb, photogr plates, VG PKM 52824 £5.4
King, B A [Ed]: The Prince Charles Heirside Book. London: Frewin 1972. approx 25p sm square hb, photogr plates, VG PKM 52823 £5.4
Hazlitt, William : Lectures on the English Comic Writers. London: Dent 1904. (Temple Classics) 304p bright blue cloth, spine gilt, frontisp w/ tissueguard, thin paper edition, VG+ PKM 50264 £8
R[andall], D[avies] : A Little More Nonsense. Kensington: Cayme Press 1923. 90p marbled boards, paper title labels to spine & cover, limericks with old woodcut illustrations, corners of cover rather worn, edges worn, paper detaching from board around spine, eps sl foxed, VG- ex lib copy PKM 47759 £18
Davies, Randall : A Lyttel Booke of Nonsense. 1st ed. London: Macmillan 1912. 153p quarter buff cloth, card-covered boards, limericks illustrated with old woodcuts, "To join them to new occasions need be no slur on their value and beautym if the rhyme be taken as lightly as it is offered", letter regarding one of the illustrations laid in, corners of cover sl bumped, VG ex lib, pretty and entertaining volume auther denoted as "R.D." PKM 47758 £18
Gardner, Martin : Mathematical Puzzles and Diversions. London: Penguin 1966. 155p pb, illus, VG PKM 47687 £5
Dudeney, Henry : Amusements in Mathematics. London: Nelson 1940. viii 258p red cloth with black lettering to spine, 430 puzzles, many illus, spine dulled, fitted with private parcel paper dustjacket, VG PKM 47674 £9
D, R : Less Eminent Victorians. London: Davies 1927. approx 60p of limericks with illustrations, cloth A4 format, first edition, VG+ PKM 47220 £25.2
Scarron : Le romant comique, Vols 1 - 2. Texte �tabli et pr�sent� par Henri B�nac. Paris: Belles Lettres 1951. (Les Textes Fran�ais) complete in 2 vols 263p 326p brown cloth, leather labels on spine, appendices, notes, biography, library stamped, in excellent condition PKM 47162 £37.8
Prohias, Antonio : Mad's Spy vs Spy Follow-Up File. London: New English Library 1968. (Signet Books) approx 100p pb, illustrated, VG PKM 46859 £6.3
Healey, Tim : Extraordinary Inventions: Bizzare Ideas that never got off the Ground. New York: Reader's Digest 1986. 48p stapled booklet, outrageous inventions from early 'flying machines' and single-wheeled rollerskates to machines to trap Nessie and nocturnal sundials, VG PKM 46193 £4
Courtenay, John : A Poetical Review of the Literary and Moral Character of the Late Samuel Johnson. California University Press 1969. (Augustan Reprint Society) x 28p blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine, facsimile reprint of 1786 original with introduction, VG+ unused ex lib copy PKM 46035 £12.6
A Rambling Batchelor : Matrimonial Ceremonies Displayed: Wherein Are the Various Customs of Near 100 Different Kingdoms and People in the World, Now Used in the Celebration and Consummation ot Marriage, To Which is Added the Comical Adventures of Sir Harry Fitzgerald. Serjeant 1900. iv 104p hb, notes, account of marriage customs arround the world, plus a comical account of a man's seven unsuccessful marriages, cover grubby, hurts to spine, VG- PKM 45648 £16.2
[(No Author)]: Punch. Vols 86 & 87. London: Office of The Punch 1884. 2 vols bound as one: iv 312p, iv 312p large 4to blue cloth, early issues of sartirical magazine, very many cartoons & engravings, binding sl loose, front hinge weak, hurts to spine, VG- PKM 45600 £27
Waller, John : Shaggy Dog and other Surrealist Fables. Illustrated by Frank Wilson. London: Duckworth 1953. (First Edition) viii 72p sm hb, frontisp, funny illustrations, notes, VG+ bright and fresh PKM 45168 £16.2
Mason, Edward [Ed]: Humorous Masterpieces from American Literature, Vol 1. Edinburgh: Douglas 1886. viii 287p cloth with gilt on cover and spine, includes W Irving, N Hawthorne, H Longfellow, E Quincy, O Holmes, Ch Leland, and many more, very well preserved ex lib copy PKM 45080 £9
Lane, Maggie : The Bront� Sisters Quiz and Puzzle Book. Bristol: Abson 1983. 44p pb, illus, as new (no answers filled in!) PKM 45003 £5
Cameron, Roderick : Shells. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1961. 127p large square hb, many illustrations, some in colour, chapters on Shells in Art, Handbooks and Nomenclature, Univalves and Bivalves, etc, VG PKM 44534 £5.4
Ebdon, John : Ebdon's England. First edition. Newton Abbot: David & Charles 1985. 189p hb, dj, illus, VG: Englishness, whims & eccentricities PKM 43140 £7.2
(No Author) : Juggling and Feats of Dexterity: Amazing Acts of Skill and Subtlety for the Domestic Arena London: Letts 1992. (Pocket Entertainments Series) 96p hb, dj, as new PKM 43139 £4.5
Leppmann, Franz : 1000 Worte Deutsch: Ein Sprachf�hrer f�r Nachdenkliche. Berlin: Ullstein 1930. 10 seperately bound booklets in folder, boxed 306p, illustrations, index, VG PKM 43041 £18
Gilliatt, Penelope : Unholy Fools: Wits, Comics, Disturbers of the Peace: Film & Theatre. London: Secker & Warburg 1973. x 373p large half cloth, marbled cover, index, VG PKM 42961 £7.2
Benstead, C R : Alma Mater. A Profound Study of a Great University. London: Muller 1944. 152p hb, dj, comic history of Cambridge, cartoons by Edgar Northfield, dj with adhrsive film, VG PKM 42313 £10
Travers, Ben : Rookery Nook. London: Allen 1977. 253p hb, dj, comic novel, VG PKM 42029 £9
(No Author) : Dew Yew Keep a'Troshin! Old Barney's Broadcasts. Vol 1. Ed. Keith Skipper, Illus Chad. Fakenham: Jim Baldwin 1984. 75p card cover, illus, VG PKM 41770 £6.3
Erasmus, Desiderius : �loge de la Folie par Didier �rasme de Rotterdam avec les dessins de Hans Holbein. Paris: Cluny 1944. xxvii 164p pb dj, illustrations, VG PKM 41321 £10.8
Laincel, Louis de : Voyage humouristique dans le Midi: �tudes historiques et litt�raires. Paris: Lemerre 1869. 502p nice half calf with gilt and marbled cover, author inscription on title opage, frontisp, on Suze-la-Rousse, Vaucluse, Avignon, Orange, etc, in excellent condition PKM 41188 £52
Wallace, Robert [Ed]: Sometime the Cow Kick Your Head: The Biennial of Light Verse and Witty Poems. Light Year '88/9. Cleveland: Bits 1988. 235p russet cloth, dj, illustrated by Bonnie Jackson, poems by Alfred Dorn, Marian Gleason, Judson Jerome & many others, index, as new PKM 40443 £9
MacBeth, George [Ed]: The Penguin Books of Sick Verse. London: Penguin 1963. (Penguin Poets) 329p pb, clean, fresh copy, VG PKM 39893 £6
Buchwald, Art : How much is that in Dollars? (Illustrated by Laszlo Matulay) Cleveland: World Publishing 1961. 255p cloth dj quite nice, VG, first edition PKM 39477 £5.62
Scarron : Le Roman comique. (Nouvelle �dition revue sur les meilleurs textes) Paris: Garnier 1940. 412p pb, cover missing, first section loose, pages clean PKM 39410 £7.2
Larson, Gary : The PreHistory of the Far Side: A 10th Anniversary Exhibit. London: Futura 1991. 288p pb sm quarto, illustrations, VG PKM 39232 £13.5
Serwuschok, Ingolf ; D�lle, Christine : Der Besser Wessi. Leipzig: Forum 1991. 56p pb sm booklet, illustrations, VG PKM 39148 £5.4
Gascoigne, Bamber : Murgatreud's Empire. London: Cape 1972. 191p hb, satirical novel, VG+ first edition PKM 38480 £10
Leray, Y ; Pradeilles, A et al: This Quiet Revolution. Paris: Longman 1980. 175p large pb, lighthearted look at the development of computers, cartoon illustrations, inscribed by two of the authors, spine sl dulled, VG PKM 38428 £15
Beerbohn, Max : And Even Now. London: Heinemann 1920. 320p buff cloth, paper title label to spine (damaged), binding loose, cover scuffed & grubby, well-used ex lib copy, good 1st ed, text clean PKM 38386 £7.2
James, Clive : Brilliant Creatures. London: Picador 1984. 317p pb, debut novel, spine sl creased, VG PKM 38347 £3.6
Roberts, Michael [Ed]: The Faber Book of Comic Verse. Third Impression. London: Faber 1943. 384p cloth, purple dustjacket (spine dull) indices, VG+ and clean, war economy paper PKM 38101 £12
Gregory, Richard : The Intelligent Eye, with 3D Stereo Illustrations. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1970. 192p paperback, 3D glasses included, VG+, a nice copy PKM 37990 £7
Carroll, Lewis : The Complete Works, with Tenniel's Drawing. London: Nonesuch 1940. 1165p red buckram, 2nd impression, front inner hinge a bit weak, spine a bit faded, VG PKM 37938 £13.5
Busch, Wilhelm : Von mir �ber mich. Mit Bildern von ihm selbst. Wiesbaden: Insel 1956. (Insel-B�cherei) 45p sm hb with protective paper sleeve, real label on front, postscript by Hans Balzer, VG, 21. - 60. Tausend PKM 37838 £3.6
Wellek, Albert : Witz, Lyrik, Sprache: Beitr�ge zur Literatur- und Sprachtheorie mit einem Anhang �ber den Fortschritt der Wissenschaft. Bern: Francke 1970. 253p cloth dj, index, notes, tables, VG PKM 37648 £5.4
Busch, Wilhelm : Die fromme Helene und andere Bildergeschichten. Olten: Fackel 1964. 162p cloth dj, nice edition with illustration on front, includes: Das gest�rte Rendezvous; Der Katzenjammer am Neujahrsmorgen; Der sch�ne Ritter; Der hastige Rausch, illustrations, VG PKM 37512 £9
Busch, Wilhelm : Abenteuer eines Junggesellen und andere Bildergeschichten. Olten: Fackel 1964. 163p cloth dj, nice edition with illustration on front, includes stories: Aus den Beitr�gen zu den "Fliegenden Bl�ttern", illustrations, VG PKM 37511 £9
Busch, Wilhelm : Balduin B�hlamm und andere Bildergeschichten. Olten: Fackel 1965. (first edition) 159p cloth dj, nice edition with illustration on front, stories include: Die k�hne M�llerstochter, Die Prise; Der Wurstdieb; Der Schreihals; stories Aus den "M�nchner Bilderbogen", illustrations, VG PKM 37510 £9
M�ller-Marein, Josef : Deutschland deine Westfalen: In Gottes eigenem Pumpernickelland. Hamburg: Hoffmann & Campe 1972. 194p sqare cloth dj, illustrations by Beate Rebhuhn, ink writing on back board, otherwise as new PKM 37365 £5.4
Brennglas, Adolf [Ed]: Komischer Volkskalender f�r 1847. Faksimiledruck der Originalausgabe. Berlin: Nationales Druckhaus 1969. vii 122p sm hb 17cm, ink markings on several pages, many illustrations, postscript by Hans Henning, article laid in, VG PKM 37361 £8
R�hl, Ernst : Deutsch - Deutsch: Ein satirisches W�rterbuch. Berlin: Eulenspiegel 1991. 103p small hb, boxed, nice cover, as new PKM 37359 £6
Busch, Wilhelm : Fipps, der Affe. M�nchen: Bassermann 1911. 89p cloth with monkey/apple (Affe/Apfel) illus, cloth sl dusty, otherwise very nice edition, illustration on cover, illustrations, VG PKM 37255 £6.3
Westphalen, Joseph : Von deutscher Bulimie: Diagnose einer Fressgier; Vergebliche Streitschrift gegen die deutsche Einheit. M�nchen: Knesebeck & Schuler 1990. 87p pb, illustrations, VG PKM 37184 £6.3
Bemmann, Helga [Ed]: Immer um die Litfass-S�ule rum: Gedichte aus sieben Jahrzehnten Kabarett. Berlin: Henschel 1972. 399p hb, many photogr plates (a few duplicated due to binding error), index, a few ink markings, otherwise VG PKM 37154 £8.1
Rauch, Carl : Heiteres aus der Welt des Buches. Z�rich: Classen 1962. 106p hb, illustrations by G�nter Canzler, texts on writers, readers and works, VG PKM 37153 £5
Wagenbach, Klaus ; Herzbruch, Barbara et al: Freibeuter 27: Thema: Fr�hliche Wissenschaft. Berlin: Wagenbach 1986. 157p large pb, texts by Erich Fried, Francois Furet, Ingeborg Bachmann, Rudolf Virchow, Otto Schily, Antonio Fian, Juan Goytisolo, and many more, many photos, as new PKM 36923 £7.2
Chesterton, G K : Pater Brown und das blaue Kreuz: Die besten Geschichten aus " Die Unschuld des Pater Brown". Z�rich: Diogenes 1980. 260p pb, VG PKM 36895 £3.6
Fenn, George Manville [Ed]: The World of Wit and Humour. London: Cassell 1890. xv 480p sm 4to format, quarter blue leather, red & gilt title panel to spine, compendium of jokes and humourous anecdotes, figures in text, outer spine hinge opening but spine still in place, binding not affected PKM 36462 £16
Seaman, Owen [Introd]: Pictures from "Punch". Vol 1. London: Office of The Punch 1910. vii 4to format, red cloth fresh, medallion w/ Punch kicking The World, first volume only, an excellent copy PKM 35824 £18
Phillips, Hubert : Word Play. London: Penguin 1945. (Ptarmigan) 128p pb, sl yellowed, first edition, VG PKM 35814 £4.5
Dickens, Charles : A Curious Catalogue. (no imprint) 1920. a postcard (unused) which shows a picture of Dickens' birthplace in Portsmouth and prints a text which uses all the titles of his books. Curious PKM 35792 £10.8
Guy, Ray : That Far Greater Bay. Newfoundland: Breakwater 1977. 147p large pb, vignettes of Newfoundland life, VG- PKM 35244 £6.3
Walsh, Colin ; Thomas, Neil : Still Crazy ... About Sport. Cambridge: Granta 1982. [80]p landscape paperback, illus, very good copy PKM 35196 £6
Sutherland, David [Ed]: The Intelligent Man's Guide to Bog Graffiti. London 1982. [96]p pb, illus, cover edges beginning to wear PKM 35060 £6
[Cameron, James]: Tobersnorey. A Rollicking Tour in the Land of the Gael. By Rag, Tag, and Bobtail, Author of Stronbuy. New Edition. Edinburgh: MacNiven & Wallace 1878?. 112p many illus, green illus paper cover, both covers detached, VG PKM 35005 £12
Earle, John : Micro-Cosmographie or a Piece of the World Discovered in Essays & Characters. London: Dent 1899. (Temple Classics) 187p small blue cloth, reprint of 1628 edition, ink inscription on endpapers, ribbon marker, Good condition PKM 33698 £30
McGonagall, William : More Poetic Gems. London: Duckworth 1963. 354p cream cloth with gilt lettering, pages unmarked, binding firm, very good condition PKM 33697 £10
Butler, Samuel : Erewhon, or Over the Range. New and Revised Ed. London: Fifield 1913. xviii 324p green cloth, black lettering to spine, clean and firm copy PKM 33582 £7
Ketcham, Hank : Dennis the Menace... Here comes Trouble. London: Fawcett 1963. (Gold Medal) 132p pb, yellow edges, cartoons, the original not the British impostor, VG PKM 33013 £4
Ketcham, Hank : Wanted: Dennis the Menace. London: Fawcett 1956. (Gold Medal) 132p pb, yellow edges, cartoons, the original not the British impostor, VG PKM 33012 £3.6
Read, Charles [Ed]: La Satyre M�nipp�e, ou, La Vertu de Catholicon, selon l'�dition princeps de 1594. Paris: Flammarion 1876?. (Nouvelle Biblioth�que Classique des �ditions Jouaust) xxiv 322p paper wrapper, intro by ed. incl repro of 1621 ed titlepage, apparatus & notes, cover worn & fragile, pages roughly cut PKM 31449 £18
Kindermann, Heinz : Die Karikatur als Quelle der Publikumsforschung. Wien: �sterreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften 1975. (Ver�ffentlichungen des Instituts f�r Publikumsforschung) 40p+38p plates, wrappers, 86 repro plates, VG PKM 30958 £10.8
Thurber, James : Thurber Country. London: Penguin 1953. 255p pb, humorous anecdotes, cartoon sketches throughout, cover sl creased, otherwise VG PKM 30483 £3.6
Jimenez, Juan Ramon : Espa�oles de Tres Mundos: Viejo Mundo, Nuevo Mundo, Otro Mundo (Caricatura L�rica). (1914 - 1940). Buenos Aires: Losada 1942. 170p pb, paper wrapper, sketches of 61 Spanish-speaking savants & intellectuals, front hinge opening otherwise VG PKM 27721 £43.2
Taylor, Wilfred : Scot Free: A Book of Gael Warnings. London: Reinhardt 1954. vii 168p cloth, index, inscription on tp, VG PKM 27429 £9
Shaw, Bernard : Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy. London: Penguin 1946. [xl] 286p pb, VG, nice copy PKM 27168 £2.7
Sutherland, James [Ed]: The Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes. 1st ed. Oxford: Clarendon Press 1975. x 382p blue cloth with gilt title, dj, 484 anecdotes from the 7th to 20th centuries, bibliogr, indices, VG PKM 26728 £5
Lynn, Kenneth [Ed]: The Comic Tradition in America: An Anthology. London: Gollancz 1958. xvi 464p burgundy cloth, dj (sl soiled), extracts from writings of Benjamin Franklin, Washington Irving, A B Longstreet, Edgar Allan Poe, Davy Crockett, Joseph Baldwin, Herman Melville, Mark Twain and Henry James among others, inscribed by Tony Tanner, VG PKM 25066 £13.5
Sutherland, Douglas : The English Gentleman. London: Penguin 1980. viii 98p pb, intro by Sir Iain Moncreiffe, illus by Timothy Jaques, VG PKM 25024 £4.5
Lester, G H : The Laws of Motion: A Dialogue. Reprint from the Mathematical Gazette December 1927. New York: Mathematical Association of America 1927. 6p sewn, card wrapper, imagined dialogue between Newton and a confused student with prep to write, inscribed by author (with the perpetrator's compliments), cover sl browned otherwise VG PKM 24958 £10.8
Wyndham Lewis, D B ; Lee, Charles [Eds]: The Stuffed Owl: An Anthology of Bad Verse. London: Dent 1935. xxxii 264p grey cloth, frontisp, plates by Max Beerbohm, index, incl offerings from Byron, Tennyson, Dryden, Poe, Wordsworth, Emerson, nice fresh copy PKM 23986 £10
[Twain, Mark]; Lynn, Kenneth : Mark Twain and Southwestern Humor. Boston: Little, Brown & Co 1959. [xiii] 300p hb, plates, index, neat marginal pencil marks, front cover sl soiled PKM 23783 £10.8
Nash, Ogden : Family Reunion. London: Dent 1951. xiii 146p cloth dj (sl spotting and damage to edges), VG PKM 23753 £6.3
Crump, C G : The Red King Dreams 1946 - 1948. London: Faber 1931. 384p mixed cloth (front cover red, back cover green, spine black), very crude tape repair because of torn hinges, binding loose, sl foxing to eps, Boots label, first ed: Frith College, Universal Instruction Co, Weston Poggs University etc: PKM 23251 £7.2
Sonnenberg, Ben [Ed]: Performance and Reality: Essays from Grand Street. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press 1989. x 374p large pb, 24 essays reprinted from Grand Street magazine, hardly used PKM 22963 £9
Hoffnung, Gerard : Musical Chairs. London: Dobson 1958. 50p 17cm cloth dj, cartoons, VG PKM 22894 £6
Baldwin, Joseph : The Flush Times of Alabama and Mississippi: A Series of Sketches. New York: Sagamore 1957. (American Century) xii 244p large pb, intro by William Owens, few faint pencil markings otherwise VG PKM 22876 £6.3
Barsley, Michael [Ed]: The Phoenix Book of Modern American Humour. London: Phoenix 1956. 256p cloth dj (sl soiled), intro by Bernard Braden, extracts from authors such as Thurber, Don Marquis, Damon Runyon, Alexander Woolcott, Robert Benchley, Dorothy Parker, Ogden Nash et al, and some illus by authors, VG PKM 22865 £7.2
Lancaster, Osbert : Drayneflete Revealed. 1st ed. London: Murray 1949. x 70p cloth dj (in two pieces and decayed), illus by author, VG PKM 22847 £10.8
Aurand, Monroe : Little-Known Facts about Bundling in the New World. Illus ed. Harrisburg: Aurand 1938. 32p stapled, illus, a coy little tract in defence of chaste bed-sharing by courting couples prior to marriage, sl foxed but otherwise VG PKM 22551 £14.4
Shutter, Leonard : The Letters of Emma. 1st Edition. London: Epworth 1933. 128p cloth dj (embossed paper, sl worn), inscription by 'Emma' on front free endpaper, marginally yellowed but otherwise very good, nice and fresh PKM 22236 £24
Hokinson, Helen : The Ladies, God Bless 'Em!. New York: Dutton 1950. 16p plus 76 pages w/ illus, 4to hb, dj (marginally worn), a posthumous collection of the cartoonist's work, VG PKM 20671 £6.3
Thoma, Ludwig : Der Postsekret�r im Himmel und andere Geschichten. Berlin: Ullstein 1914. (Ullstein B�cher) 179p red cloth 15cm, spine hurt, binding soft, worn, tired PKM 19690 £5
Thackeray, William Makepeace : Contributions to Punch, etc. (Works of W M Thackeray, Vol 14) London: Nelson 1900. 639p india paper, full calf, spine gilt and intact, aeg, frontisp, nice, a lovely copy PKM 17842 £12
Hood, Thomas : Comic Annual for the Year 1833. (The Remains of) London 1833. vi (of xii) 174p but most of the un-paginated full page illus have been removed, also also 2 or 3 paginated pages missing, original cover front and back still tolerable, bookblock detached, spine also OK: PKM 17543 £7.2
Belloc, Hilaire : Selected Cautionary Verses. London: Penguin 1958. 181p pb, illus Bentley, VG PKM 17532 £4.5
Pocock, Guy ; Bozman, M M [Eds]: Modern Humour. A Nosegay of Contemporary Wit. Dent / Everyman 1940. 367p orange cloth library stamp, firm and clean PKM 17304 £10.8
Morgenstern, Christian : Galgenlieder, neben dem Gingganz. 60 Illus von Paul Erni. Z�rich: Rascher 1946. 88p cloth, old tape maks on spine, clean and firm copy PKM 16098 £5.4
(No Author) : Essays, Mock-Essays and Character Sketches. Reprinted from the Journal of Education. London: Rice 1905. x 365p red buckram, fresh copy, with contributions by Tollemache, Farrar, Mark Pattison, E E B, Sophie Bryant, etc PKM 16059 £9
Meredith, George : An Essay on Comedy and the Uses of the Comic Spirit. London: Constable 1934. 105p green cloth, nice copy PKM 15864 £5
Brooke-Taylor, Tim ; Oddie, Bill : The Goodies Book of Criminal Records. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1975. 86?p hb, illus throughout, English humour PKM 15246 £6.3
Sellar, W C ; Yeatman, R J : 1066 and All That. A Memorable History of England, Comprising all the Parts you can Remember, Including 103 Good Things, 5 Bad Kings, and 2 Genuine Dates. Illus J Reynolds. London: Methuen 1960. xii 115p hb, worn dustjacket, VG: Hilarious PKM 13597 £8
Rangemore, Roger (?) : This Merrie English. First Slips in Literature. London: Epworth 1954. 96p hb, dj, illus (Sillince) VG+ PKM 13594 £6
Herbert, A P : Laughing Ann and other Poems. Illus G Morrow. London: Fisher Unwin 1925. 121p cloth, nice PKM 13467 £7.2
(No Author) : The Book of Humorous Poetry. Edinburgh: Nimmo 188?. xvi 464p buckram, teg, firm copy, VG, nice PKM 13436 £8
Thackeray, William Makepeace : The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century. A Series of Lectures. London: Smith, Elder & Co 1866. 341p cloth (printed) sl soiled, inner hinges gone and gaping, detaching bookblock from cover PKM 13356 £6
Lilly, William : Four English Humourists of the 19th Century. London: Murray 1895. xxiii 192p cloth, index, VG+. Lectures on Dickens (Democrat), Eliot (Poet), Thackeray (Philosopher), Carlyle (Prophet) PKM 13338 £10.8
Fenn, George Manville : The World of Wit and Humour. London: Cassell 1880. xv 480p decor cloth, front panel loss of colour due to water (?), illus throughout with 10 plates and numerous illus in text, a grand sampler with texts by Sala, A Ward, Jerrold, Lever, Harte, O W Holmes, Twain, Lowell, etc, many not signed. The first 10 pages have become partly detached, front hinge weak PKM 12947 £14
Bateson, F W : English Comic Drama 1700 - 1750. Oxford University Press 1929. 158p cloth, bibliogr, VG PKM 12742 £8
Janicka, Irena : The Comic Elements in the English Mystery Plays against the Cultural Background (particularly Art). Poznan 1962. (Academy Proceedings) 119p card cover, many illus, index, on the relationship between drama and plastic arts (misericords etc), author letters, VG PKM 12308 £14.4
(No Author) : Conversations-Lexikon des Witzes, Humors und der Satire. Herausgegeben von einer Gesellschaft Humoristen. 1. Band. Altona: Verlags=Bureau (A Prinz) 1905. 479p half cloth, lib stamp, kuri�s and alphabethisch, letters A to E only PKM 11552 £25.2
Dowley, Tim [Ed]: Taking Off. An Anthology of Parodies, Send-Ups and Imitations. London: Methuen 1984. 259p hb, dj, VG+ PKM 11300 £8.1
Augarde, Tony : The Oxford Guide to Word Games. Oxford University Press 1984. (Guild Publishing) 240p hb, dj, index, bibliogr, VG+: Riddles, Puns, Crosswords, Scrabble and a chapter on Lewis Carroll PKM 10304 £9
Lowell, James Russell : The Biglow Papers. With Additional Notes, an Enlarged Glossary, and Coloured Illustrations by George Cruikshank. 2nd English Edition. London: Hotten 1861. viii 200p 17cm, 3 colour plates, modern cloth binding, text clean (one or two pages old marginal repair), but lacking leaf D4 PKM 10068 £16
Curtis, George William : The Potiphar Papers. New York: Harper 1869. 214p plates, foot & head of spine minor loss, a firm & fresh copy PKM 10015 £25.2
Wilcox, Helen : Catching the Sense: The Wit of Seventeenth Century English Poetry. Groningen: Phoenix 1992. 24p card cover, VG+ PKM 9115 £7
Shipley, Arthur : Furia Infernalis Linn. Offprint 1922. 3p offprint, VG: "parasites fabuleux" PKM 194 £10.8
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